On May 22-25 Nils Muzhnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights, will visit Baku. Muzhnieks is to discuss with the government of Azerbaijan the situation with human rights, according to diplomatic sources in Strasbourg. The meeting with representatives of civil society is expected.
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has a mandate that allows him to raise issues relating to human rights in all 47 member states of the organization.
According to the same sources, in May, Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and the new neighborhood, will visit Baku. The theme of the meetings and talks of Fule will be Azerbaijan's fulfillment of its obligations under the democracy within the framework of the "Eastern Partnership".-02В-
Politics
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On January 31, lawyer Elchin Sadigov was not allowed to meet with Polad Aslanov, the head of the website xeberman.com, and blogger Rashad Ramazanov in jail No. 15.
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"We are not against unimpeded communication, but this does not mean unimpeded bypassing of Armenia’s jurisdiction," said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a press conference on Friday. He confirmed that two points of the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan remain unresolved. However, he added, Yerevan has proposed solutions for both issues.
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On January 31, the Tbilisi City Court extended the arrest of Afghan Sadigov, the founder of the Azerbaijani website Azel TV, for another three months. According to Turan, Sadigov's wife, Sevinc Sadigova, reported that both Afghan and his lawyer from the Center for Social Justice learned about the court proceedings at the last moment.
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On January 31, the 141st anniversary of the birth of Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, one of the founders of the Azerbaijan People's Republic, is being commemorated. Today, activists from the "Musavat" party, the Azerbaijan Popular Front, and the National Council of Democratic Forces visited the monument to Rasulzadeh in his homeland – the village of Novkhani near Baku.
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